tor.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Use Tor through Python. Note, Tor must be running for the script to
work properly.
"""

import urllib2


def use_tor(url):
    """Use Tor to open some URL."""
    proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': '127.0.0.1:8118'})
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy)
    opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')]
    return opener.open(url).read()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    url = "http://www.google.com"
    print use_tor(url)